Thanks to new agreements with three publishers of scholarly open access journal and book content, libraries using the Summon service from Serials Solutions can offer researchers more access to freely available resources outside of their own collections.

Each opportunity to talk with librarians has reinforced the notion that each library has different management needs, is at a different stage of evaluating management services, and is embracing change at some level. The single, consistent element across each conversation is that libraries recognize the need to start somewhere, start soon, and prepare for future management services that are more mature and robust.

Librarians show how market segmentation is interesting and useful to their profession. Check out these highlights from our session Making the Most of Marketing Resources at Your Fingertips at ALA Annual in Anaheim, CA.

This past week we hosted webinars by two librarians, Mary Walker (Wichita State University Libraries) and Jeffrey Daniels (Grand Valley State University Libraries), which highlighted their use of tools to improve operations, workflow, and service to library users.

Everyone’s talking about the cloud. About SaaS. But what is it really, and what does it mean? We break it down for you in a new whitepaper, "Software as a Service and Cloud Computing: Key Considerations for Libraries."

Discover the value your colleagues are enjoying by moving to the cloud. View this short video and discover how others have reduced staff, server footprint, and hardware costs by leveraging the power of SaaS.